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Cooking Jewish: 532 Great Recipes from the Rabinowitz Family with Judy Bart Kancigor

Monday, October 26, 2009 6:30 PM

The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum present an enjoyable evening of recipes.

Get yourself organized for Hanukah dinners now. Kancigor, a food journalist whose self-published family cookbook went on to sell 11,000 copies, is here to share recipes and stories from five generations of her food-obsessed clan. Her latkes may be different from yours (they have apple in them!) but her mother Lillian's chicken soup is the best ever (at least, according to Judy - "when you write your own cookbook, you can say your mother's is the best.")

"The adventurous cooks in the Rabinowitz family have come up with dishes in a wide range of flavors.....Judy's enthusiasm and sense of humor shine through." - Faye Levy, 1,000 Jewish Recipes

Location: Tenement Museum, The Museum Shop, 108 Orchard Street

Paul Weissman Portraits at Essex Street Market

Now through November 3, 2009

Veteran LESJC tour leader and 2nd generation 'Lower East Sider' Paul Weissman is an award-winning photographer, whose work chronicles the reality of the streets and its citizens during the little-seen decades of the 70's and 80's. Fourteen of this series of one hundred portraits will be on display in the Essex Street Market (12 Essex Street, by Delancey ) through November 3rd. While each of these photographs have artistic merit, taken together, they become an important document, a record with a bow to the great Jacob Riis and Helen Levitt, representing the people of the neighborhood prior to gentrification. Mr. Weissman thinks it entirely appropriate that the photos be displayed at Jeffrey's, a Lower East Side institution in its own right, as the "oldest original family owned butcher shop in NYC since 1920," currently operating out of the Essex Street Market.

Mr. Weissman's photos have been displayed at: The New School for Social Research; Modern Age Gallery; Soho Photo Gallery; Camera Club of New York (April 1978). He was awarded a second (1976) and first place ribbon (1977) at the Brooklyn Heights Arts and Crafts Exhibition sponsored and judged by the Brooklyn Museum.

Joyce Mendelsohn Book Launch at Angel Orensanz Foundation

September 23, 2009